Information Requirements

You will each sign up for a topic on which you will chose and present a primary literature article. The article should be outside the scope of what is presented in the textbook. You will also be expected to write a brief summary of the paper (2 typed, double-spaced pages) in which you will summarize the question, hypothesis, methods, results and conclusions - and give a brief critique of the work. the review as well as a copy of the article will be handed in on the day it is presented.

Things to remember:

your journal article should not be a review article

your articleshould not be from WebMD or somewhere similar

you should cite everything that you use in your critique, and you should so so in the style of the journal 'Nature' (see handout given in class for more information)